Albertine

Albertine - Wine Bar, Restaurant & Shop - Shepherd's Bush, London

Albertine

Next is the Crocus, a partnership between internationally renowned winemaker and Malbec specialist Paul Hobbs and Bertrand Vigouroux, whose family has been producing wine in Cahors, France since the 1860s.

There will also be SB flights available, spanning from the fresh crisp and elegant SB of the Loire Valley to the tropical ripe and floral SB from the warmer climates of the southern hemisphere.

Here is the selection Rob has put together for the night: Fragrance of pure white grapefruit, intense tropical fruit, ripe gooseberry and fleshy kiwi fruit over-lay Iona’s distinctive herbal and floral undertone.

A great alternative to New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc and our choice for the summer BTG list.

With its intense and elegant nose combining grapefruit and tropical fruits and a fleshy and fresh mouthfeel, this classic Loire Sauvignon Blanc has astonishing clean minerality persisting on the finish.

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Q&A: Allegra McEvedy on new restaurant Albertine and what she ...

Back in 1978 my mum and her cousin bought an old chicken shop and turned it into a francophile wine bar, which was extraordinary for the time and the area.

They chose that neighbourhood because they had a few friends who worked at the BBC who were always moaning about how there was nowhere to spend their very large expense accounts, in the days of expense accounts, and so they set up this wine bar.

It was very much a wine bar with a few bits and pieces on the bar back in the day, and now we still have those bits and pieces on the bar, and we have a sausage roll du jour, because I like silly things like that.

I'd come home and my mum wasn't there, I'd dump the school bag, trot up the road, and go sit on a high stool in the Albertine kitchen, which is exactly the same it is now, and watch my mum make soup and do my homework on the side.

I think the Albertine years somehow went into me – when I did my O-Levels, everyone went off afterwards to do a bit of work experience at their dad's newspapers or their mum's law courts or chambers, but I somehow convinced my mum to let me do two weeks at the greasy spoon at the end of the road, serving out double eggs, chips and beans.

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GO London Newsletter A wine bar where the creators of EastEnders wrote the soap’s first script is to be reopened by Junior Bake Off judge and Leon co-founder Allegra McEvedy.

London's best wine bars London's best wine bars 1/12 10 Cases This small bistrot is a little like the French place you always wished you could find: somewhere for home-cooking and jugs of plonk.

But to take it that way would be a mistake: inside, all marble, dark wood and glass bricks, is an unpretentious take on a wine bar, modern London and old Paris all at once.

This regularly-changing offering costs £9 a glass and could be any wine from the list that costs between £35 and £95 a bottle.

Info: 47 Villiers St, WC2N 6NE gordonswinebar.com 9/12 Greenberry Cafe The trouble with wine bars is the idea of them being wearisome spots for tedious bores to stick their noses into oversized glasses and pontificate nonsense about berries and grass and sad clowns.

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Lawson brings a spectacular mastery of pasta to a divey little restaurant blessed with considerably more personality than its hotel-based alma mater.

The main flavour here is Italian classics, flawlessly realised: roasted delica squash and ricotta stuffed into fine pasta and bathed in sage butter; pork cheek agnolotti in a buttery porcini sauce ripe with parmesan.

Others seem to have been dreamed up for the lolz: a wonderful vegetarian dish where romanesco cauliflower, that natural fractal marvel, comes bathed in nutty, peppery romesco sauce.

Romanesco and romesco together – of course!

Lawson isn’t afraid of perfect simplicity: hake, fried in the lightest batter, with marigold-yellow aïoli of palate-prickling pungency and so thick, you can cut it like butter; sauteed chicken livers tumbled on top of oily bruschetta.

Albertine | Bars and pubs in Shepherd's Bush, London

Well, it’s named after this Shepherd’s Bush wine bar.

Current owner Allegra McEvedy remembers going to pick out those very pews with her mother Sarah, who started the bar back in 1978 (yup, Albertine’s back in the family) and they look well-loved.

Allegra’s refurbished the place but preserved its soul: the vibe is charming and understated, with the focus firmly on the excellent wine list.

Albertine’s got a restaurant proper upstairs, but the bar menu is excellent – taking in everything from charcuterie to linguine to lovely oily grilled sardines.

Shepherd’s Bush isn’t exactly famed for its food and drink, so Albertine is a winey oasis in the desert.

Albertine Restaurant | Restaurants in White City, London

Set upstairs at this homely Shepherd’s Bush wine bar, Albertine’s restaurant has a lovely understated cosiness about it.

The best dish of my night was a smoky aubergine topped with sharp caponata – take note: Albertine is a good place to take a vegetarian.

No dish was exceptional – the old-fashioned wine bar downstairs is probably more of a draw than the restaurant – but this is a nice laid-back spot to dine after an afternoon spent wining.